SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

"
These
"
There
VOWELS AND CONSONANTS.
(MIND AND BODY.
"
Of letters, the letter A, I am,"
Gita.
is an alliance with matter, with the object or extended world ;
but the thing allied, the mind proper,
has itself no extension and cannot
be joined in local union. Now, we have a difficulty in providing any
form of language, any familiar analogy, suited to this unique conjunction;
in comparison with all ordinary unions, it is a paradox
Bain.
or contradiction"
The quotation, we give above, is from Dr. Bain s remarkable
book Mind and Body, and the several chapters comprising
the book are worth close study, even though we are not bound
to accept the learned Doctor s conclusions, and share in his
hope that the philosophy of the future will be a sort of qualified
materialism. The important thing
is to get at his facts, as far
as they can be arrived at by close observation and experiment,
and such inference as are warranted by strict logic, which
have been most thoroughly sifted, and about which therefore
there can be no doubt. We will enquire, therefore, what are
the proved facts concerning the nature of mind and body and
their characteristics, and the nature of their connection, so far
as they can be ascertained. Now as regards Mind, it is
analysed into Feelings (including emotions), Will and Intellect.
are a trinity in unity ; they are characteristic in their
several manifestations, yet so dependent among themselves that
no one could subsist alone ;
neither Will nor Intellect could be
present in the absence of Feeling and
; Feeling manifested in its
completeness, carries with it, the germs of the two others." The
ulUrnate analysis of a Feeling, being either a pleasure Or a pain,
it is seen, however, that volition or thought could not, in any